Old-scar mass and changing surgical perspective: Sarcoidosis
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Old-scar mass and changing surgical perspective: Sarcoidosis.
Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease of an unknown etiology. Skin is involved in 25% of all cases, and 29% of them present as a scar sarcoidosis. Asymptomatic old-scar masses are generally regarded as a foreign body reaction by surgeons and often result in excisional biopsy. We describe a case of a patient who developed sarcoidosis in a 34-year-old appendectomy scar and adjacent ingui...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Surgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1300-0705,1308-8521
DOI: 10.5152/ucd.2014.2693